EDITOR'S NOTE: THE DEADLINE FOR THE DART OP ED ART CONTEST IS EXTENDED TO MIDNIGHT FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 28! Information. Cheers, Peggy

Monday, September 24-Monday, October 1
Viewing, Phillips de Pury & Company Photographs Auction (October 2, 10 am & 2 pm) 450 Park Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Thursday, September 27-Sunday, September 30
NY Art Book Fair. Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world's premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 250 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries.
NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46^th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.

Friday, September 28-Sunday, September 30
DUMBO Arts Festival | A Three-day Celebration of Art, Music & Performance with 500 artists from a variety of disciplines; 100 studios; 50 galleries and stages; and 100 programming partners. Visitors can enjoy outdoor and indoor visual art installations and exhibitions, digital art and large scale projections, visiting artists in their studios or making murals on the street, musicians, dancers, poets, performance and circus artists throughout the neighborhood, on street corners, and in the park. Directions.

Friday, September 28-Sunday September 30
Art Platform Los Angeles. The Barker Hanger 3021 Airport Avenue, Santa Monica, CA. Information.

Friday, September 28-Tuesday, October 2
Viewing, Southeby’s Photographs Auction (October 3, 10 am & 2 pm). 1334 York Avenue, NY, NY. Information.

Saturday, September 29-Wednesday, October 3
Viewing, Christies Photographs Auction, October 4-5. 20 Rockefeller Plaza, NY, NY. Information.

Saturday, September 29-Thursday, October 4
Viewing, Swann Galleries Fine Photographs & Photobooks Auction. 104 East 25^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

William Henry Fox Talbot, Footman at Carriage Door (details); calotype negative and its salt print, 14 October, 1840. From Talbot’s World: A Gallery of Natural Magic, continuing through November 2 at Hans P. Kraus, Jr. | Fine Photographs, 962 Park Avenue, at 82^nd Street, NY, NY. M-F, noon-6 pm and by appointment. Information.

Tuesday, September 25

Panel discusson 6:30 pm: An evening with Kate Orff, the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, and Wilma Subra. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 23^rd Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Wednesday, September 26

Art in the First Person Lecture Series presents, 7 pm: Photography, Narrative and the Book. SVA Theater, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Free and open to the public. Information about upcoming programs.

Dear Dave magazine presents, 7 pm: Christian Patterson | Redheaded Peckerwood in conversation with author Luc Sante and publisher Michael Mack. SVA Theater, 333 West 23^rd Street, NY, NY. Information.

Conversation and book signing, 6:30 pm: Marvin Heiferman | Photography Changes Everything, with Merry Foresta, Wendy Ewald, and CarolSquiers. Aperture Gallery and Bookstore, 547 West 27^th Street, 4^th Floor, NY, NY.

Opening day, 11 am-6 pm: Ray K. Metzker | Pictus Interruptus and Ruth Thorne-Thomsen | Expeditions. Laurence Miller Gallery, 20 West 57^thStreet, NY, NY. Gallery hours: M-S, 11 am- 5:30 pm.

Enrique Chagoya, The Head Ache (after George Cruikshank), 2010. Courtesy of the artist and GeorgeAdams Gallery, NYC.

Thursday, September 27

Opening reception, 6:30-8:30 pm: Bruce Haley and book launch party for Kevin Kunishi | Los Restos de la Revolucion (Daylight 2012). Anastasia Photo, 166 Orchard Street, NY, NY. Featuring beer and music from Nicaragua.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Party Headquarters | Art in the Age of Political Absurdity. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, 144 West 14^th Street, NY, NY. Inconjunction with the exhibition, a New York Mobile Voter Registration Center designed by artist Duke Riley (M.F.A. ’08) will tour the streets of Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Queens.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Water! | The Water Tank Project NYC. David Zwirner Gallery, 535 West 20^th Street, NY, NY. Presented by Word Above the Street in collaboration with Studio in a School, the exhibition is a selection of works by New York City public high school students who participated in the Spring 2012 Art Competition for The Water Tank Project.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Magdalena Sole | Mississippi Delta. Sous Les Etoiles Gallery, 560 Broadway, #205, NY, NY.

Opening reception, 6-8 pm: Timeless in an Instant. Impossible Project Space, 425 Broadway, 5^th Floor, NY, NY.

Film screening, 7 pm: Adults in the Dark | Avant-Garde Animation, featuring James and John Whitney. Musuem of Arts and Design, 2 Columbus Circle, NY, NY. Information the series, which runs through November 16. Tickets $10/$5.

In Boston, MA Panel discussion, 6-8 pm: Henry Horenstein | Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music With Leslie Brown, Boston University, former curator at the Photographic Resource Center at BU, Matt Glaser, Berklee College of Music, Artistic  Director of the American Roots Music Program, Eric Rosenberg, Tufts University, Associate Professor of Art History. Carroll & Sons, 450 Harrison Avenue, Boston, MA. Live music and book signing to follow, 8-10 pm, at J.J. Foley’s Pub and Restaurant.

In Los Angeles, CA Lecture, 7:30 pm: A Visual Life | The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker. Keith Davis, senior curator of photography at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, provides an overview of one of the most remarkable and influential careers in American photography. The Getty Center, 1200 Getty Center Drive, Los Angeles, CA. Free. Reservations. In conjunction with the exhibition The Photographs of Ray K. Metzker and the Institute of Design. Information.

Christian Patterson, left: House on Fire; right: Ray of Light, from Redheaded Peckerwood. Panel discussion, Wednesday at 7 pm, SVA Theater.

Friday, September 28

Book signing, 6-8 pm: Henry Horenstein | Honky Tonk: Portraits of Country Music. ClampArt, 521-531 West 25^th Street, NY, NY. Music by Jon Sholle and Bob Jones.

Opening reception, 6-9 pm: New York Photo Awards Exhibition 2012. The powerHouse Arena, 37 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY.

Open mic, 6:30-9 pm: Bronx Stories | Young Lords Edition. Host Professor Johanna Fernandez and presenters Felipe Luciano, Denise Oliver-Velez, and Minerva Solla will lead a tour of the galleries, sharing stories and poems about the Bronx, the Young Lords movement, and their perspectives on selected artworks in the exhibitions. Afterward, make your voice heard in our open forum! Welcome remarks by Donald Rubin and special performance by Rebel Diaz. Bronx Museum, 1040 Grand Concourse at 165^th Street, Bronx, NY.

Opening day, 11 am-6 pm pm: Mickalene Thomas | Origin of the Universe. Brooklyn Museum, 200 Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn, NY.

In Savannah, GA, opening day, hours 10 am-5 pm pm: The Little Black Dress | curated by Andre Leon Talley. Savannah College of Art and Design Museum | Andre Leon Talley Gallery, 601 Turner Boulevard, Savannah, Georgia. Information.

Anonymous, Beach Bathers, Cars, Horse, from Edge to Edge | Vintage Panoramic Photography in Florida, continuing through December 14 at the Southeast Museum of Photography. 1200 West International Speedway Blvd (Building 1200), Daytona Beach, FL.

Saturday, September 29

CCNY presents, 4-6 pm: The New Woman in Film | A conversation between Saul Robbins and Vanessa Rocco. Camera Club of New York, 336 West 37^th Street, Suite 206, NY, NY.

Opening day, 11 am-6 pm pm:  Silver Wind | The Art of Sakai Hitsu. Japan Society, 333 East 47^th Street, NY, NY. Public Programs.

Symposium, 1-4 pm: Silver Wind: The Arts of Sakai Hitsu. Japan Society Gallery, with the support of the Japanese Art Society of America, convenes a group of distinguished speakers, moderated by curator Matthew McKelway, to discuss the beauty of Japanese nature as depicted byHitsu, featuring Tadashi Kobayashi, former Professor of Art History at Gakushin University, Tokyo; and Satoko Tamamushi, Professor of Art History at Tokyo’s Musashino University of Fine Arts and a leading authority on the art of Hitsu. Moderated by Haruo Shirane, Columbia University’sShincho Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture. $12/$8. Japan Society, 333 East 47^th Street, NY, NY. Information.

Conveyor Arts presents, book launch, 6-8 pm: This Folder Might Contain Clippings and Other Ephemeral Material by Liz Sales. DUMBO Arts Festival, United Photo Industries Pod, Main Street between Water and Plymouth Streets, Brooklyn, NY. Information.

In Oakland, CA Spohn Lecture Series presents, 2-3:30 pm: Ken Light and Melanie Light | Valley of Shadows and Dreams. A book signing follows the talk. Oakland Museum of California, 1000 Oak Street, Oakland, CA.

Sunday, September 30

Book signing, 3 pm: Amy Stein and Stacy Arezou Mehrfar | Tall Poppy Syndrome (Decode 2012). NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46^th Avenue, Long Island City.

Book signing, 4-5 pm: Micki Smith | Denudation (limited edition/Hassla 2012). NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, 22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46^th Avenue, Long Island City, NY.